Clinical efficacy of EMDR in unipolar depression: Changes in theta cordance
Description
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has demonstrated efficacy in treating major depressive disorder. EMDR increases cerebral perfusion in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC). Activity in the ACC and dlPFC can be measured by theta cordance (TC) but has not been examined in EMDR. Ten participants (3 men, 7 women, M age = 42.31 ± 15.03) received ten 75 ± 15 minute EMDR sessions over 6.5 ± .5 weeks. Results indicated that PHQ-9 depression scores reduced from T1 (M = 13.9 ± 3.31) to T11 (M = 6.30 ± 3.23) with EMDR (SMD = 2.30), and that fTC but not pfTC was significantly related to this change. Depression declined as fTC declined. EMDR may engage the dlPFC or ACC that modulates depression and aid in reducing fTC and thus depression levels.
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Journal
Language
English
Original Work Citation
Baptist, J., Thompson, D. E., Spencer, C., Mowl, M. R., Love, H. A. & Su, Y. (2021, February). Clinical efficacy of EMDR in unipolar depression: Changes in theta cordance. Psychiatry Research, 296. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113696
Citation
“Clinical efficacy of EMDR in unipolar depression: Changes in theta cordance,” Francine Shapiro Library, accessed May 15, 2024, https://francineshapirolibrary.omeka.net/items/show/26664.